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Murray Bookchin is definitely more of an anarcho-communist, though part of the battle he fights in this book is fragmented nature of anarchist theory. He tackles head-on the theories he encompasses under the umbrella of "lifestyle anarchism": bohemianism, primitivism, individualism, and some postmodern aesthetics.

Concluding that "lifestyle anarchism" has little to do with "social anarchism" (i.e., anarchist theories of mobilizing discontented masses suffering under capitalism), Bookchin then spends only a few pages outlining what exactly "social anarchism" is, what it hopes to achieve, how it hopes to achieve it, and how it could be preferable to "lifestyle anarchism".

It's a pretty short read, I read it in a couple of hours. It's good to clear away the dust of anarchist theories that are intensely individualistic and detached from material conditions of many people. Though, before reading this book, I would recommend the essay "Your Politics are Bourgeois as F*ck", available here:http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php.... It's a polemic against CrimeThinc and their hippie/dropout nonsense.

This is essentially a sprawling book review, as Bookchin examines the writing of several authors and critiques their thoughts, though generally only dipping into one of two of their works. Not bad, though,

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Murray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology movement within anarchist, libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology. In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with the strategy of political Anarchism and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism.

Bookchin was an anti-capitalist and vocal advocate of the decentralisation of society along ecological and democratic lines. His writings on libertarian municipalism, a theory of face-to-face, assembly democracy, had an influence on the Green movement and anti-capitalist direct action groups such as Reclaim the Streets.